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Mountains were once my big adventure…

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.

I soon became convinced… that all…

I soon became convinced… that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

I have a good idea every…

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

Every evening, I come home tired…

Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

When radio stations started playing music…

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

With our work at Kazaa, we…

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

We have just started, and if…

We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we’re still just starting.

What we are doing is taking…

What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.

We have 2 million users in…

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries.

They also can combine voice with…

They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.